Tire-cover.



PATBNTBD Nov.6,19o6. /I F. C. BROCK @E A. M. SCHAPFER.

TIRE COVER. APPLICATION FILED JULYz. 1906.

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U NiTnD STATES PATENT @Einen FREDERICK C. BROCK l.AND ARTHUR M. SCHAFFER, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNORS TO THE VEHICLE APRON & HOOD COMPANY, OF COLUMBUS,

OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

TIRE-COVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Batented Nov. 6, 1906.

Application led July 2. 1906. Serial No. 324.383.

T all whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that we, FREDERICK C. BROCK and ARTHUR M. SGHAFFER, citizens of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Tire-Covers, of which the fol owing is a speciiication.

Our invention relates to tire-covers, and has for its object the provision of a cover adapted to receive the extra tires usually carried upon automobiles and to inclose said tires in such manner as to protect them from the dust to which they are naturally subj ected during the movements of the automobile by which they are carried.

While the tire-cover forming the present invention has been illustrated as being formed of a number of pieces, it may be said that in a general way this cover consists of a casing which is adapted to be wrapped about the tire, each of the edges of said casing having an elastic fastening-strip extending therealong nearly the entire length of the cover, tleiends of said elastic strips projecting beyond the end of the tire-cover at one end of said cover and being provided with rings and the opposite end of the cover being provided at each edge with hooks adapted to engage these rings.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a tire-cover constructed in accordance with the invention and illustrating said cover as it appears when secured upon a tire. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the parts shown in Fig. l with portions of the cover broken away. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section, upon an enlarged scale, of a tire-cover and the tire which it incloses; and Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view illustrating a portion ofthe cover adjacent its ends.

Like numerals designate corresponding parts in all of the figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 5 designates the tire which is incl'osed by the tire-cover comprising the present invention. This tire-cover comprises an inner annular stri 6. Secured to this strip at its edges are a p urality of segments 7, which cover the sides ofthe tire. Stitched to-these segments at 8 and 9 are flaps.` 10 and 11, the edges of these flaps being turned over and stitched, as

at 12 and 13, to form pockets 14 for the reception of elastic stri s 15 and 16. These stri s extend around t e tire along the edges of t e fiaps and 11 and through the pockets 14, one end of said elastic strips and 16 terminating, as at 17, and being fastened there to the walls ofthe pockets 14.v The opposite ends of said strips are provided with rings 18 and 19. The opposite ends of the cover are provided along its edges with hooks 20 and 21, with which these rings are adapted to en age. In securing this cover in position the e astic stri 16 is rst extended about the tire, and the rings 19 are then engaged over the hooks 21. The cover is then Wrap ed about the tire, as shown in Figs. 3 an 4, until the flap 10 overlies the flap 11 and the strip 15 lies upon the olpposite side ofthe tire 5 from the strip 16. he ring 18 is then engaged over the hook 20. This construction provides a simple and efficient tire cover which will retain its osition until the rin s are disengaged from t e hooks. It eiective y protects the tire from dust or moisture and may be very cheaply made.

From the foregoir g description it will be seen that simple and efficient means are herein provided for accom lishing the objects of the invention. but w 'le the elements shown and described r re well adapted to serve the purposes for which they are intended it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the recise construction set forth, but includes within its purview such changes as may be made within the scope of the appended claims.

1. A tire-cover having elastic strips extending along each of its edges and terminating at one end of said cover, rings carried by the ends of said elastic strips and hooks secured to each edge of the opposite endof the cover and adapted to be engaged by said rings.

2. A tire-cover comprising a body portion, elastic strips extending along the edges of said body portion and terminating at one end of the cover, fastening devices carried by said elastic strips and adapted to engage fastening devices carried upon the opposite ends of the tire-cover.

3. A tire-cover comprising an annular web annular side laps secured to said web, flaps IOO secured to the free edges of said side flaps one l In testimony Whereo We affix our signaof which overlaps the other, elastic strips extures in presence of two Witnesses.

tendin along the edges of said flaps fastening i device? carried by the edges of said flaps adjacent one end thereof, and fastening devices secured to onev end of the elastic strips which Witnesses: are ada ted to engage said first-named fas- A. L. PHELIS, tening evices. C. C. SHEPHERD. 

